Differentiated English Language Learner Support
Beginning
Word Knowledge Understand the meaning of the term fact family.
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Display images of families. Say, "Families are a group of related people. Families
might share the same hair or eye color. Families might share the
responsibilities such as chores." Ask students to provide examples of how their
families share.
Write a fact family. Say, "This group of facts is called a fact family. A fact family is
a group of related facts that use the same numbers."
Display examples and nonexamples of fact families and have students identify
whether or not they are fact families.
Intermediate
Show What You Know Identify and model fact families.
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Using counters, model a mutliplication fact. Then model a fact famioly. Have
students say the multiplication fact aloud and write the fact on the board.
Repeat with other facts in the fact family and rearrange the counters to model
each fact. Gesture to each written fact and ask, "What do these facts have in
common?" After students answer, say, "These facts all use the same three
numbers. They are a fact family."
Distribute counters to students. Say, "Fact families use the same three numbers,
so you can use the same number of counters to model each fact." Ask students
to model the facts using a different fact family. Write the fact family on the
board.
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Differentiated English Language Learner Support
Advanced
Building Oral Language Write fact families and solve for variables.
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Write the word variable and the Spanish cognate, la variable. For non-Spanish
speaking ELLs, refer to the Multilingual eGlossary for interactive definitions in
13 languages.
Group students in bilingual pairs. Have each group write factors for assigned
numbers, such as: 12, 20, 30, and 36.
Ask each pair to write a fact family for the set of numbers on the card.
Distribute blank index cards. Ask pairs to write the fact family, using a variable
to replace one number, on the blank index card.
Have pairs switch index cards and find the unknown. Students should state the
answer using the sentence frame: "The variable _____ is equal to _____."
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